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ABOUT ME

Mira Bartók is an artist and writer, and the creator of The Wonderling: Songcatcher, the first book in an illustrated middle-grade fantasy series (Candlewick Press 2017). The Wonderling will also be a movie, directed by award-winning British director, Stephen Daldry (The Crown, Billy Elliot, The Reader, etc.), and produced by Working Title Films and Fox2000. (You can read more about the crazy book to movie deal HERE and HERE). Mira is also the author of The Memory Palace, a New York Times
bestselling memoir and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She has written numerous books on ancient and indigenous cultures for children (The Ancient and Living Stencil Series), and her writing for adults has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize, noted in The Best American Essays series and has appeared in many literary journals, magazines and
anthologies.She lives in Western Massachusetts with her musician/producer husband Doug Plavin and their little dog Sadie.